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Written by Dori Otterson
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Shalom Lutheran Church of Alexandria would like to invite area readers to share in Pastor Grant Aaseng’s “Norwegian Adventure.” Shalom will begin running videos previously shown on a popular Norwegian reality television program beginning July 1. The eight episodes will be shown on four consecutive Thursdays with the exception of July 22, the week of its western barbecue. 
Pastor and his daughter Marit had both seen the ad in the Star Tribune, a casting call for the show, Everything for Norway. Grant thought, “That would be fun” and then kind of shrugged it off. His daughter, Marit, a Jefferson High School senior said, “Dad, you meet all the requirements; you’ve never been to Norway, you are of Norwegian ancestry, you don’t speak Norwegian, and you are within the right age range. You qualify in every way and would be perfect for the show.”
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Written by Jessica Critz
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 Thirty sheep, 24 rabbits, three llamas and two alpacas. For most people, that amount of animal responsibility is unthinkable. For Kathy Sletto, it’s everyday life. And going from being a full time office worker to full time shepherdess has been an interesting journey, to say the least.
Ten years ago, Kathy inherited a spinning wheel, originally built in the 1870s and handed down through her family for generations. It was still a fully functioning spinning wheel, and she wanted to make more of it than a decoration.
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Written by John R. Stone
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 Kevin Lee still remembers the day, nearly 40 years ago, that a tornado struck his hometown of Miltona. It was 7:02 p.m. July 18, a Saturday evening.
“The fire siren went off,” said Lee, who now serves as Miltona’s City Clerk, and who lived a half block from the fire hall at the time. “It was 1970, back before pagers, so when the fire siren went off I went over to the fire hall to see what was going on.”
What was going on was a tornado, Lee quickly learned, so he headed back home to his family’s house.
“When I got back home Mom was closing the windows,” he said. “I remember helping to close windows and seeing stuff fly by.”
Lee and his mother headed to the basement to ride out the storm which was over very quickly.
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Written by Bernie Farnam
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 Dan Moe was born in the suburbs of Minneapolis and moved to southern California as a toddler. One would think that Dan Moe was destined for life in the city. Not so. Childhood memories of Grandpa’s farm in Minnesota forged a deep imprint into his mind of what life was meant to be. A dream was born within Dan, and no city could hold him.
Today he lives as a full-time farmer, running “The Farm of Minnesota,” a Community Supported Agriculture operation. You might say, you can take the boy out of the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy.
Growing Up
Dan’s mother grew up on 160 acres of rolling farmland, bordering 90 acres of shoreline of one of their two lakes.
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Written by Diane Anderson
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Many will remember the book “The Little Engine That Could,” the story of a group of toys determined to reach the boys and girls on the other side of the hill. When the engine on the train carrying them breaks down, the toys are relentless in finding an engine that will pull their train over the mountain. They ask the shiny new engine, the passenger engine, andthe freight engine to help. Those engines all decline, but the toys do not give up. When a Little Blue Engine, used only for switching trains in the yard, comes along she is inspired by the toys’ pleas for help, and she agrees to give it a try. Her mantra, “I think I can. I think I can...” carries them to their destination.
The Northern Pacific Passenger Depot in Wadena is being restored, and Kay Browne has been the little engine that could. Encouraged by others, Browne worked hard to get the historic building known simply as The Depot, beautifully restored.
Hop aboard for a journey down the tracks of memory lane. . .
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